Tag Archives: Norma Kaser

Last year and the year before, in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, I shared recipes from our Thanksgiving Dinner Table. In case you’re wondering about what you’re going to have. Here are some ideas.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Part of a Ham Dinner for an alternative Thanksgiving Dinner.

Add some mashed potatoes, and the turkey of course and you’ll have a whole Thanksgiving dinner. If you were my grandmother, Vera Stout Anderson, you’d also have ham and bake a cake, and have three kinds of vegetables–but, hey, it all depends on how big an appetite your family has.

Holidays at my brother and sister-in-law’s house are filled with delicious food. EVERYBODY cooks. Paul William and Norma Haggberg Kaser both cook. Their sons Michael and David cook (especially Michael, who is a trained chef). So it is no surprise that this delicious recipe for turkey dressing comes from the Kaser household.

Dressing that not only includes apples, but apple cider; not only pecans, but SPICED pecans!

It came to me just in time. I was wondering how I could include turkey dressing in the Thanksgiving recipes I am sharing with you at Ancestors in Aprons. Dressing is one of my favorite dishes on the Thanksgiving table, but my own is an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink concoction that includes whatever I happen to have on hand–nuts, fruit, sausage, oysters, vegetables. And for the bread, I stow leftover ends of all kinds of bread in the freezer for months, and then use the hodgepodge for dressing. So you can see how it might be difficult for me to pass on my “recipe.”

And by the way, do you call it “dressing” or “stuffing”? My family is firmly in the “dressing” camp, but American Food Roots wants to know which you use–and I’m curious, too, so leave a comment here. American Family Roots is also having a Thanksgiving dressing/stuffing contest. But if you want to enter. Do it TODAY, Tuesday, November 18.Check the prize and leave your recipe here.

Meanwhile, if Norma chose to enter her dressing and spiced pecans in that contest, I’m sure it would be a contender.